Hoshoryu needed a rematch and his fellow yokozuna Onosato walked on thin ice, but the pair did enough to join the top of the New Year Grand Sumo Tournament leaderboard on Saturday after No. 12 maegashira Abi fell to his first loss.Hoshoryu (6-1) had to face No. 3 maegashira Hakunofuji (4-3) twice at Tokyo's Ryogoku Kokugikan after the initial bout ended in a dramatic throwing battle at the edge, in which both wrestlers were adjudged to have landed at the same moment by the ringside judges.Untroubled by bleeding from his right forehead sustained in the first bout, the grand champion secured …READ FULL ARTICLE
